• Dr Shweta Saxena

The Covid -19 Pandemic has had a bad influence on the lives of people across the world and in all sectors of the economy including education. The Government issued guidelines to stay inside home and stay safe and so a very large number of enrolled learners as well as active teachers all over the world were forced to stay at home.There was complete lockdown to avoid educational institutions had to adapt themselves to Online Teaching -Learning system. The whole world had to shift to online teaching- learning practices inorder to avoid the interruptions in Education of students across the world. Online teaching and learning takes place through electronic devices such as smart phones, tablets and Laptops and through the Internet and on virtual platforms such as Zoom, MS Teams, Google Meet, Cisco Webex , Google Classroom,etc.All these were new to the Digital Immigrants i.e. the teachers although , the new generation of students belong to the category of Digital Natives. In the present study, data collection was done through two different questionnaires, one for school students and the other for school teachers.Collection of data was done through Google forms between April 15, 2021 and July 26, 2021 in Gwalior from different school teachers and students.The challenges faced by school students and teachers in online teaching -learning were studied and the opportunities and future of online teaching-learning was also studied.The present study is the unique of its kind as it addesses the advantages and disadvantages of the online education system which has now become the new normal in India.

Online teaching-learning, Covid -19,Digital Natives , Digital Immigrants.

"IMPACT OF COVID -19 ON VIRTUAL TEACHING - LEARNING SYSTEMS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no.a605-a609, December-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112072.pdf

"IMPACT OF COVID -19 ON VIRTUAL TEACHING - LEARNING SYSTEMS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 12, page no. ppa605-a609, December-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2112072.pdf